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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

9 km SW of Gabbs, Nevada

· 8.0 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mineral County 48 kmChurchill County 83 kmLyon County 105 kmEsmeralda County 120 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
8.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mineral County, 48 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 793 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 38.8154, -118.0119. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mineral County, NV 48 km (30 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Churchill County, NV 83 km (52 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Churchill County
Lyon County, NV 105 km (65 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lyon County
Esmeralda County, NV 120 km (75 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 125 km (78 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mono County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

29 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.4 23 km NW of Mina, Nevada
  2. 2.4 12 km S of Gabbs, Nevada
  3. 1.5 17 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  4. 1.6 16 km NNE of Hawthorne, Nevada
  5. 1.8 12 km NW of Mina, Nevada
  6. 1.5 15 km S of Gabbs, Nevada
  7. 1.8 21 km NW of Gabbs, Nevada
  8. 2.3 17 km E of Walker Lake, Nevada
  9. 2.9 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  10. 3.9 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  11. 1.9 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  12. 3.4 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  13. 3.3 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  14. 2.2 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada
  15. 1.6 17 km ENE of Walker Lake, Nevada

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.3 on 2016-03-21 — it released about 7,900 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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